Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-30
II SECOND PART.
CHAPTER V.

After only one week Of travelling In
Scotland, my lord aud my lady returned
UNEXPECTEDLY to London. introduced to
the mountains and lakes of the Highlands,
her ladyship positively declined to improve
her ACQUAINTANCE with them. When she
was asked for her reason, she answered
with a Roman breyity, Il have seen
Switzerland"
For a week more the newly married
couple remained in London, in the strlctest
retirement. On u day in that week the
nurse return d in a state OF most uncus-
tomary excitement from an errand on
which Agnes had sent her. Passing the
door of fashionable dentist, she had met
Lord Montbarry himself just leaving the
house. The good Woman's report described
him, with malicious pleasure, as looking
wretehedly i'll. "His cheeks are getting
hollow, my dear, and his beard Is turning
gray. / hope the dentist hurt him.
Knowing how heartily her faithful old
servant hated the mSn who had deserted
her, Agnes made due allowance for a large
infusion of exaggeration ia the picture pre-
sented TO her. The main impression pro
duced ON her mind WAS An impression OF
nervous uneasiness. II she trusted herself
in the streets by daylight while Lord
Montbarry remained in London, how could
she he sure that his next chance meeting
might not be meeting with herself? She
waited at home, privately ashamed OF her
own superstitiOus fears tor the next two
DAYS. Ou the third day the fashionable in
~tclligence OF the newspapers announced
the departure of Lord and Lady Montbarry
for Paris, on their way to Italy.
Mrs. Ferrari, calling the some evening,
informed Agnes that her husband had left
her with all reasonable expression OF con-
iugal kindness, his temper being improved
by the prospect of going abroad. But one
other servant accompanied the travellers
Lady MOntbarry's maid, rather a silent,
unsociable woman, so far as Emily mad
heard. Her ladvship's brother, Baron
Rivar, was already on the continent. 1t
had been arranged that he WAS to meet his
sister and her husband ut Rome.
/ One by one the dull weeks succeeded
each other in the life Of Agnes. She faced
her position with admirable courage, see
ing her friends, keeping herself occupied
in her leisure hours with reading and
drawing, leaving no means untried OF d.
verting her mind from the melancholy re-
~membrance of the past. But she had loved
too faithfully, she had been wounded too
deeply, to feel in any adequate degree the
influence of the moral remedies which she
employed. Persons who met with her IN
the ordinary relations of life, deceived by
her outward serenity of manner, agreed
that "MiSS Lockwood seemed to be getting
over her disappointment" But an old
friend and school companion, who hap
pened to see her during a brief visit to
London. was inexpressibly distressed by
the change that she detected in Agnes.
This lady was Mrs. Westwick, the wife of
that brother of Lord Montbarry who came
next to him in aye, and who was described
in The Peerage ~ presumptiye heir to the
title. He was then away, looking after
his interests in some mining property
which he possessed in America. Mrs.
Westwick::insisted on taking Agnes back
with her to her home in Ireland. Come
and keep me company while my husband
is away. Ny three little girls will make
You their playfeuow, and the only stranger
YOU will meet is the goyernesS, whom l
answer for your liking beforehand. Pack
up your things, and will call for you to-
morrow OH my way to the train" In
those hearty terms the invitation was
given. Agnes thankfully accepted it.
For three happy months she lived under
the roof of her friend. The girls hung
round her in tears at he" departure; the
youngest of them wanted to 90 back with
Agnes to London. Half in Jest, half in
earnest, she said to her Old friend at part
ing: at your goyerness leaves you, keep
the place open for me- Mrs. Westwick
laughed. The wiser children took it
seriously, and. promised to let Agnes know.